Decoding the Closet in American Painting: Eakins, Demuth, Grant Wood
Join us for an eye-opening virtual talk by Ignacio Darnaude, who will decode the queer art and lives of three trailblazing American artists
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This talk will decode the queer art and lives of three trailblazing American artists: THOMAS EAKINS, CHARLES DEMUTH and GRANT WOOD. The talk will reveal the astonishing concealing tactics they used to express their authentic sexual desires in their work.
Starting with Thomas Eakins, his universally beloved painting "The Swimming Hole" is a coded tribute to a Walt Whitman poem about loving young men. Charles Demuth addressed different audiences with strikingly different work, including sexually explicit watercolors which he never exhibited during his lifetime. Discover the fascinating story behind the iconic painting "American Gothic" and the entangled triangle between its creator, closeted artist Grant Wood, his male assistant and unrequited love, Arnold Pyle, and Wood's oppressive sister, Nan, who modelled for the painting and refused to acknowledge his homosexuality.
Speaker Info
Ignacio Darnaude is an art historian, writer and film producer based in Los Angeles. After a 25 career in Hollywood's studio system, he left his positions as Head of International Marketing for Disney and Sony to pursue a passion project, bringing to life the documentary series "HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT - BREAKING THE QUEER CODE IN ART."
Finding out that many Museum boards are very conservative and reject discussions and exhibitions around gender identity, he launched into a decade-long research on the impact of queer artists in art history. Its findings shatter the belief that still exists among most of the general population and the art world that an artist's queerness is irrelevant to their work and that same-sex desire is just a footnote in art history.
A regular contributor to the Gay & Lesbian Review, Ignacio Darnaude is currently conducting a lecture series in U.S. colleges and Gay & Lesbian Centers revealing the creative codes used by queer artists to express their forbidden desires during repressive times. The response to the revelations in these lectures has been extraordinary because the sexuality of these artists has been excluded from schools' curricula, keeping their achievements hidden from both the heterosexual and the queer communities..
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Yes the event will be recorded and you can buy a ticket for the recording above. If you buy a ticket for the recording you will be emailed automatically after the event with a link to the recording, available to view for 1 week after receiving the link. If you bought a ticket for the live event but couldn't make it please email us and we will send you the link to the recording.